About the Manage Templates Page

Templates allow you to apply predefined preferences and/or notifications settings to computer accounts, client accounts, or groups. This helps you change the settings for one or multiple computer accounts without having to edit them manually. There are four types of templates:

System Preferences
Software Preferences
Notifications templates
Overage alert templates

Preferences templates change the way the system and the software operates (e.g. bandwidth throttling and worker count)

Notifications templates determine how often and for what reasons notifications will be given by the software

Overage alerts templates give you and your clients a way of being notified if an account approaches its data limit.

It is important to understand that templates, when applied, only make the changes once; they are not persistent, or, put another way, to do not enforce the changes they set.

When creating a preferences template, you do not have to set each option. The only options that are applied by the template are those which you place a check mark next to. Those which are unchecked remain at the default setting or in the state they were prior to the template being applied.

Newly applied templates overwrite any existing preferences, notifications settings, or overage alerts.

An example of the Manage Templates page is displayed below.